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Information, says Janaki Srinivasan, has fundamentally reshaped development discourse and practice. In this study, she examines the history of the idea of information and its political implications for poverty alleviation. She presents three cases in Indiathe circulation of price information in a fish market in Kerala, government information in information kiosks operated by a nonprofit in Puducherry, and a political campaign demanding a right to information in Rajasthanto explore three uses of information to support goals of social change. Countering claims that information is naturally and universally empowering, Srinivasan shows how the definition, production, and leveraging of information are shaped by caste, class, and gender.
Srinivasan draws on archival and ethnographic research to challenge the idea of information as objective and factual. Using the concept of an information order, she examines how the meaning and value of information reflect the social relations in which it is embedded. She asks why casting information as a tool of development and solution to poverty appeals to actors across the political spectrum. She also shows how the power to label some things information and others not is at least as significant as the capacity to subsequently produce, access, and leverage information. The more faith we place in what information can do, she cautions, the less attention we pay to its political lives and to the role of specific social structures, individual agency, and material form in the defining, production, and use of that information.
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The Information Society Series
Laura DeNardis and Michael Zimmer, Series Editors
Interfaces on Trial 2.0, Jonathan Band and Masanobu Katoh
Opening Standards: The Global Politics of Interoperability, Laura DeNardis, editor
The Reputation Society: How Online Opinions Are Reshaping the Offline World, Hassan Masum and Mark Tovey, editors
The Digital Rights Movement: The Role of Technology in Subverting Digital Copyright, Hector Postigo
Technologies of Choice? ICTs, Development, and the Capabilities Approach, Dorothea Kleine
Pirate Politics: The New Information Policy Contests, Patrick Burkart
After Access: The Mobile Internet and Inclusion in the Developing World, Jonathan Donner
The World Made Meme: Public Conversations and Participatory Media, Ryan Milner
The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy, Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz
Digital Countercultures and the Struggle for Community, Jessica Lingel
Cyberbullying Policies of Social Media Companies: Toward Digital Dignity, Tijana Milosevic
Authors, Users and Pirates: Copyright Law and Subjectivity, James Meese
Weaving the Dark Web, Robert W. Gehl
Hacker States, Luca Follis and Adam Fish
The Politics of Dating Apps: Gender, Sexuality, and Emergent Publics in Urban China, Lik Sam Chan
Technology of the Oppressed, David Nemer
The Political Lives of Information: Information and the Production of Development in India, Janaki Srinivasan
THE POLITICAL LIVES OF INFORMATION: INFORMATION AND THE PRODUCTION OF DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA
JANAKI SRINIVASAN
The MIT Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England
2022 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
This work is subject to a Creative Commons CC-BY-ND-NC license. Subject to such license, all rights are reserved.
The MIT Press would like to thank the anonymous peer reviewers who provided comments on drafts of this book. The generous work of academic experts is essential for establishing the authority and quality of our publications. We acknowledge with gratitude the contributions of these otherwise uncredited readers.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Janaki Srinivasan, author.
Title: The political lives of information : information and the production of development in India / Janaki Srinivasan.
Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2022] | Series: The information society series | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021061987 (print) | LCCN 2021061988 (ebook) | ISBN 9780262544047 (paperback) | ISBN 9780262370363 (pdf) | ISBN 9780262370370 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Economic assistance, DomesticIndiaCase studies. | Economic development projectsIndiaCase studies. | Information resourcesIndiaCase studies.
Classification: LCC HC440.P63 J45 2022 (print) | LCC HC440.P63 (ebook) | DDC 338.954dc23/eng/20220506
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021061987
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021061988
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AO | Agricultural Officer |
BC | Backward Caste |
BDO | Block Development Office; also Block Development Officer |
BJP | Bharatiya Janata Party |
BPL | Below Poverty Line |
CD | Compact Disc |
CIDA | Canadian International Development Agency |
CM | Chief Minister |
CS | Chief Secretary |
DFID | Department for International Development |
EIC | East India Company |
FIR | First Information Report |
FRW | Famine Relief Work |
IARI | Indian Agricultural Research Institute |
ICTs | Information and Communication Technologies |
ICTD | Information and Communication Technologies and Development |
IDRC | International Development Research Centre |
IDSJ | Institute for Development Studies Jaipur |
INP | Indo-Norwegian Project |
ITU | International Telecommunications Union |
IVRP | Information Village Research Project |
JRY | Jawahar Rozgar Yojana (Jawahar Employment Scheme) |
KSMTF | Kerala Swatantara Matsya Thozilali Federation (Kerala Independent Fishworkers Federation) |
KVK | Krishi Vigyan Kendra |
KW | Knowledge Worker |
LBSNAA | Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration |
MB | Measurement Book |
MDG | Millennium Development Goals |
MGNREGA | Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act |
MGNREGS | Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme |
MKSS | Mazdoor Kisaan Shakti Sangathan (Union for the empowerment of laborers and peasants) |
MLA | Member of Legislative Assembly |
MoU | Memorandum of Understanding |
MSSRF | M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation |
NCPRI | National Campaign for Peoples Right to Information |
NGO | Nongovernment Organization |
NIE | New Institutional Economics |
NOS | Namma Ooru Saidhi (News from our village) |
PA system | Public Announcement system |
PASIC | Pondicherry Agro Service and Industries Corporation Limited |
PC | Personal Computer |
PRA | Participatory Rural Appraisal |
PRI | Panchayati Raj Institutions |
PSTN | Public Switched Telephone Network |
RML | Info Services Reuters Market Light |
Rs. | Rupees (Indian currency) |
RTI | Right to Information |
SC | Scheduled Caste |
SDM | Sub-Divisional Magistrate |
SHG | Self-Help Group |
SIFFS | South Indian Federation of Fishing Societies |
SMS | Short Messaging Service |
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